It is with regret that we announce the death, which occurred on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, of Mr. Burgess Aillison Edwards, a prominent and popular member of the American community of Shanghai. He was taken ill suddenly on Wednesday evening last and, in spite of a brave fight for life, succumbed to a virulent attack of scarlet fever.
Since the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Edwards in Shanghai duwing. the winter of 1919-20, Myr. Edward had been a keen oarsman in the Rowing Club, being one' of the crew of the American fours and eights in the Spring Regatta, of 1921, when the fours won the International event. He was aliso a member of the American Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps.
Mr. Edwards was born on March 26, 1892, at Washington D.C, his home later being in Boston, Massachusetts.. He graduated from Harvard University with the class of 1914.
In September of the same year he joined the firm of Messrs. Hayden, Stone & Ca., bankers, of ow York and Boston, continuing with them until June, 1916, when he enlisted in the Ist Field Artillery of the National Guard of Massachusetts' for Federal Service on the Mexican Border. He served on the border at El Paso, Texas, until) November, 1916, and then rejoined Messrs. Hayden, Stone & Ca., for a brief time before reporting, in the spring of 1917, as a candidate at the First Officer's Training Camp, Platisburg Barracks, New York: In August, he was commissioned as Captain, F.A.R.O., and assigned to command "B" Battery, 302d. F.A., Camp Devons, Massachusetts. In July, 1918, he sailed with them for France and from November 1 to 11, commanded the First, Battery, 302d Field Artillery in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Marcheville-St. Hiillaire Sector. In April, 1919, he returned with his unit to America, was honourably discharged, and in June, 1910, accepted his commission as Major, F.AR.O.
On August 30, 1919, Mr, Edwards married Miss Jean Chandler Lawson at Egypt, Massachusetts, and they both sailed for Shanghai in November of the same year, where Mr. Edwards joined the firm of Messrs. Andersen, Meyer, Ca., whom he had recently left in order to go into business for himself. He was a member of the American Club, the Cercle Sportif Francais and the Rowing Olub, and also of the Harvard Clubs of Boston 2nd New York, the Beverly Yacht Club of Boston,-and the Military Order of Foreign Wars.
He is survived by his wife who lives at 548 Rue Ratard, his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrell Edwards of Boston, Massachusetts, and one brother, Mr. John C. Edwards, who lives in France.
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